Unbecoming

✍ Scribed by Neil Surkan

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 113
• Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series; 65
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Poems that embrace the disorder of transformation.

Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friendships.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Contents
I
Some Limits
The Minimum
My Favourite Death Sentence
Jericho Beach
Renfrew
Inside Heaven
Reservoir
I
Witness
Gloaming in a Monoforest
Ruminant
Pioneer 10
Infinities
II
Aubade
Poetry Workshop with Medical Students
Death Perception
Bluff
Late Style
Boomer
Tent Caterpillars
Span
Death by a Thousand
Forsakenness
Both
White Lake
The Corn Maze
III
The Infinite Replies
Mushroom Picking
Ars Poetica
Bewilderment
Mole
In Cell
Pathetic
Scratched in a Stall on the seasong
The Protest
A Family Friend Paints Our Hometown
Golden Years
Silver Lining
Paradise
Bluff (II)
Heaven
Faith
Anxiety of Influence
IV
Nocturne
Shore
Stranger
Strain
At Choir
The Days without Injury Count
McIntyre Bluff
Desire Path
Outposts
Unbecoming
Notes
Acknowledgments